SHAREPOINTINTRODUCTION

Marcos MussioComputer Engineer

SharePoint Developer

Agenda• What is SharePoint?• Concepts• Arquitecture• SharePoint Wheel• Integration• Study Cases• Requirements• Demo

What is SharePoint?It is a business collaboration platform• Main goal, share information between people.

Collaboration: Spaces to share information like meeting sites, discussions, announcments, documents, calendar events.

Platform: deploying, adding and setting configurations ON SharePoint.

Concepts(1)

• Farm: Installation of one or more load-balanced Web servers, and back-end servers.

• Lists: Containers in which SharePoint stores data.• Library: Container for holding documents,

pictures, lists, discussions.• Site: Container for child sites, pages, and content

such as lists and document libraries.• Site Collection: Container for SharePoint sites,

which exists within a specific content database.

Concepts(2)

• Site Template : A customized type of Site, it could be Team Site, Blog Site, Meeting sites, etc.

• Web Part - Components that display content on a page.

• Page - Container for Web Part zones, and Web Parts.

• Feature: Set of elements(app pages, scripts, images, source code) to be deployed.

Arquitecture

SharePoint Wheel(1)

SharePoint Wheel(2)

Sites: Create and Deploy web sites(business logic, pages, styles, java scripts) into SharePoint according to your needs.

Communities: Share information inside your company(e.g: blog sites, document libraries).

Content: for all web sites, their information is saved into a data base

Search: service to find everything you want inside SharePoint(items, documents, scripts, web pages, people)

Insights: Engine to bring us the information all together like BI systems

Composites: Extend SharePoint, customize tools(web controls, forms) either with or without code

Integration

• Office Tools(Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint).• SSIS and SSRS(BI tools).• Legacy Data bases(External content types).• Azure.• Silverlight.• Domain Servers.

Case(1)

A company needs to develop an environment to share documents, information and guides (like a WiKi) for each project the company has. Therefore,the new workers could access and learn the work process for each project.

Solution: SharePoint, creating one site for each project.

Case(2)

A company wants to develop a software that needs to expose its information to be accessible from external sources(others web systems, mobile systems, another SharePoint application).

Solution: SharePoint, Using SharePoint Web Services.

Requirements

• Windows server 2008 64 bits R2 or higher.• SQL server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 or higher.• 64-bit, 4 cores for small deployments (fewer than

1,000 users).• 64-bit, 8 cores for medium deployments (between

1,000 to 10,000 users).• 8 GB for small deployments (fewer than 1,000

users)• 16 GB for medium deployments (between 1,000 to

10,000 users)

Demo

Deploy a Site Structure and showing a Document library

References

• Lynda.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE9TpraPlrE

• AuthorStream – Introduction to SharePoint http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/pankaj2050-298819-introduction-sharepoint-wss-moss-content-management-science-technology-ppt-powerpoint/

• TrainSignal Webinar: Sharepoint 101: Introduction to SharePoint Basics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fzy7ezISRc

QUESTIONS?